from xml.dom import minidom

doc = minidom.parse(myXmlFile)
for element in doc.getElementsByTagName('MyElementName'):
if element.getAttribute('name') in ['AttribName1', 'AttribName2']:
    element.parentNode.removeChild(element)
f = open(myXmlFile, "w")
f.write(doc.toxml())
f.close()

from xml.dom import minidom

doc = minidom.parse(myXmlFile)
for element in doc.getElementsByTagName('MyElementName'):
    if element.getAttribute('name') in ['AttrName1', 'AttrName2']:
        parentNode = element.parentNode
        parentNode.insertBefore(doc.createComment(element.toxml()), element)
        parentNode.removeChild(element)
f = open(myXmlFile, "w")
f.write(doc.toxml())
f.close()

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
hello = "<!--Comment tag-->"
commentSoup = BeautifulSoup(hello)